If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Try to sleep. Tomorrow’s coming, whether we worry about it or not.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.