He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

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.

Start each action with overwhelming positivity enthusiasm and each action will be overwhelmingly successful.

World is getting stranger and stranger... I think there is interesting perspective in the series "Falling Water".

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.