He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

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.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.