Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.Hats can do the same thing.

Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.