He that begins to live, begins to die.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

There is a certain calling in your life from the heart of God

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.