No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

Sickness is a belief which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.