The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.

Always listen to your HEART. The wisdom of your heart is the connection to your authentic power - the true home of your spirit

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.