Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

I spend most of my free time under the house.

If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.

What drives me, and what always has, is that I am still looking for my place.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night