For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

The tests and exams were not so difficult to pass but we fail a 'yes' or 'no' answer when it comes to dealing with sin

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.