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.

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.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.