But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

I try to eat healthy and be balanced.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning