The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The nature of Nature is change.

Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

To have more, you've got to become more.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.