Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

To maintain a fault known is a double fault.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

I'm not much into speculation.

I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.