Change your thought life to a prayer life.

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman and God help him still more if he finds her.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.