It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Don't hunt what you can't kill

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

I hate to see a beautiful woman drink bad wine

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.