He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

The crazy thing is, I never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous.

Do Americans want the government to micromanage every aspect of our lives? President Ronald Reagan certainly didn't.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.