The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."