We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track. (Dark City Lights)

Apostles go into new territory and establish God’s kingdom.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

To love another person is to help them love God.