Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful.

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.

Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.