Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

In our very ordinariness', we are capable of extraordinary actions

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.