one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Eat and sleep well. Be Positive and get rid of the Negative in Your Life.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.