Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The golden moments of your life blend in fulfilment with the deepest joy and love you share with your love ones.

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

When I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I found the secret of life!

Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?

People will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. It's not going to work that way. Those days are over.

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.