The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

If ye love me keep my commandments

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.