Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

I thank God every day for bringing you into my life. I know I don't deserve you, but I'm a better man because of you.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!