God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

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.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

I don't have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I've done it every way I know how.