I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.
God befriend us, as our cause is just!
The great hope of society is individual character.
Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.