Afflictions clarify the soul.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

The more we rehearse the worse we become.

SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

Deep down I'm really shallow.

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.