Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!

At one time, we all were Gods.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.