Next to God, thy parents.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.

The ocean cradles the bloodied moon in its aquatic arms like a mother holds her crying babe.

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.