I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but I have to indulge every now and then!

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.