Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry.

Your true potential in life will always be greater than your positive imagination.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.