Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?