I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.