The character of a man is known from his conversations.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

God made us for a specific purpose

When you're in love, the sun never stops shining.

My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.