She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you!

Moms come up to me at book signings.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.