Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.

Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.

Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.