We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it