Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.Serve it out and eat it up.Have a try, have a try.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.