Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people.

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.