"Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

"Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."