I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

It doesn't have to be perfect...as long as you're happy with it.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.