If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All for one and one for all.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Be good, be young, be true. Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Happiness is egotistical.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one you will never want to live again only to dream forever.

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--Wait and Hope.

All for one, and one for all.

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.