In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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.

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

If this is the freedom you speak of... I want no part of it.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.