Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Godliness is practical religion.

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.