Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

It’s about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It’s all about divine love.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.