God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of their souls.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.