She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Don’t be afraid. Be courageous!

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.