What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.