Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.

It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.