I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Love the sinner but hate the sin.

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Everything is possible; just not too probable.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows, The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her, Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer Unto the harvest of the eternal summer, Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.