Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages.

Diet is really important, and I think vitamins are really important, also.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

She was incurably dishonest.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.