It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.