A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Charity begins at home.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell.
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Music is too big for just one station, love is too big for just one nation and God is too big for just one religion.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
A lie has no legs.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
