Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination

I just realized, there is too much of me in me.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.