Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

I like to go play shows just to see people, so I'm not in the game of like, "You're at my show, you're gonna listen to it like this, blah blah blah."