Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

When I get ready for an event, I always look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I look like a transvestite,' I love it.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.