Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.