There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

It is better to seek the glory of God than human beings.

Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.