The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.