Truth is the root of all the charities.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Godliness is practical religion.

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.