He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure