The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Tests of love always end badly.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.