“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Evil is only good perverted.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.

Into each life some rain must fall.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.

There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.

You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

We mean far more to God than the work we do.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that.