To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you´ll find your treasure

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.