Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Adversity only makes us stronger.Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow stronger.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.