To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

Andre Gide

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas Henry Huxley

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Charles Sanders Pierce

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Isaac Stern

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

Samuel Johnson

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Pierre Salinger

The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.

Wallace Stevens

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Everett M. Dirksen

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Sela Ward