No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

It is never too late to show true character.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

There is no such thing as a fair fight.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

The vision Donald Trump has articulated to Make America Great Again means a stronger America at home and abroad.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?