Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

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.

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.

The sacred soul knows the sacred voice of the Great God.

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.