Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

No matter what, you cannot run from who you are.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.