For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy....

There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and how to be loved.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.