It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

Don't walk behind me

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work