Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

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.

Every opportunity has challenges when you overcome it turns to rewards.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.