Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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.

Embrace the pain

Those who know God can smoothly adapt to changes

I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Never only exists in your head. Anything is possible.