War is delightful for those who don't know it

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

I basically raised myself.

How did it make you feel?

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.