Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

He is idle that might be better employed.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.