The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.

We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.