The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.