Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.