Religion is what you do with your solitude.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.