If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

There is but one art, to omit.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.