It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.