He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.