Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation