Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I just reared back and let them go.

Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.