I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

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.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.