Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Being thankful for and celebrating what is attracts more of what can and will be.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.