No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask.

Positive or Negative, doesn't MATTER - Sacrifice always PAY-BACK!!!

Faith is reason at rest in God.

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Pretty is never beautiful.