Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.