He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away.

The flock mirror the madness of their liege.

Life. It begins and begins and begins. An infinite number of times. It is all beginnings until the end comes. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we do not, but, at every moment, life begins again.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

If you don’t have faith in yourself, then nobody else will have faith in you.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.