There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Making a million friends is not a Miracle. The miracle is to make A Friend who will stand by you when millions are against you....

The knowledge of the Holy Scripture is a great wisdom.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature.

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.