Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

A woman is a foreign land.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.