We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I don’t want to finish reading the book.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them"....

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia