The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

There are many new sinners today, but there aren’t any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.