The greatest pleasure in life is love.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

A sky full of starsand he was staring at her. —ATTICUS

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.

Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.