I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.