Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.

NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.