If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you, ' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough, ' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself, ' said Obierika.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.