Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

I love twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it’s like saying, ‘pass the salt.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.”

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.

It is one of the superstitions of mankind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

If you don't find god in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.