The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The past embraces the futureThe future embraces the pastThey are both intertwinedLinked in all eternity

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

What made you immortal? (Nick) Really good DNA. (Acheron)

Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.