I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Each man's soul is his genius.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

If you stay determined, the obstacles cannot stop your progress. You will triumph over every mountain.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.