Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Lenin refused to recognise moral norms established by slave-owners for their slaves and never observed by the slave-owners themselves

Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

A brand is the promise of an experience.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.