So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.