The best recreation is to do good.

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.

Anyone who hates anyone, only hates themselves.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.