“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

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.