The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.