If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.

For all of my life, I am digging deep in my heart to find the liquid gold of love to share.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.