It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

If you care about the people you work with then you work harder

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.