With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Do what other successful people are doing, that is how you can be brilliant.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone, " I thought–and pondered.

I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.