Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.