Ambition destroys its possessor.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.

When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?

Where love is no room is too small.

He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.