How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

I don't really have a type of woman.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.