Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

Believe in yourself the way God believes in you.

The medium obscured the message.

Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.

If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.