There is no wisdom like frankness.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.