Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Before comparing yourself or your life to others, take a good look at your fingers.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Good information is the best medicine.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.