O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Please Tommy. Please.

Most of the non-profit organizations are owned from the wealthy rich philanthropists but are managed and run from poor philanthropists.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.