The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

Idleness is paralysis.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

Maintain a balance life: Nurture your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.