It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

Work harder than your opponent.

The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.