Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

[Hillary] Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.