We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.