Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly

Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do.

My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.