No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

The fear of God kills all other fears.

What we feel is as true a fact as what we think.

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.