If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Calculation never made a hero.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

If we are intended for great ends we are called to great hazards.

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

I've got the Lord on board.

I love my dog, but since the kids came along, the petting has gone out of our relationship.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.