I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Nothing lasts forever ... pain and troubles included.

If you want a candidate who is led the fight against Obamacare, who will lift the burdens on small businesses and bring back jobs, I'm the only candidate in the race with that proven record.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.