Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.

I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

When it comes to my daughter, I'm a conservative. But when it comes to your daughter, I'm a liberal!

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

The media's trying to attack my administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it for whatever reason.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

The river is everywhere.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.