All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

In the end, only you can care about you.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.