The fewer desires, the more peace.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

A great man is made so for others.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfillment of your purpose.

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones.

How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The key to motivation is motive.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?