It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.