Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Grace is the divine ability to cope with every circumstance.

A single reason why you can do something is worth 100 reasons why you can't.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

There is more meat on a chicken's forehead!

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.