Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

.....before we can change the world we need to change our minds.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.