A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Water is the best of all things.

Learn what you are and be such.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don’t let ourselves be mired down in them.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

What you are comes to you.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.