Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.