It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Only the home can found a state.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.