“What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.”

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it’s the only problem but there’s got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.