Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

I'm a huge sports fan.

Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?