One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

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 we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.

You may slip but God isn't going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.