We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap