Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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.

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.

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

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

When I am through learning, I am through.

The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.