Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.