Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.