He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?