O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.