It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.

Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.