He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

Life is never a competition.

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Family comes first for me in every single way.

Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.