Of two evils we must always choose the least.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Remember that lost time does not return.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

If you carry your cross joyfully it will carry you.

Learn to humble yourself you are but earth and clay.

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God.

In judging of others, a man laboreth in vain, often erreth and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.

Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

Its wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Life begins each morning.