Little opportunities should be improved.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Little opportunities should be improved.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

The more you say the less people remember.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self love.

The greater our dread of crosses the more necessary they are for us.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command not knowing what we shall draw.

How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.

A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

I am loved for who I am.

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

The Humanist view of life is progressive and optimistic in awe of human potential living without fear of judgement and death finding enough purpose and meaning in life love and leaving a good legacy.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly...

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.