Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

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.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

I’d give you – if I thought one day you might return my feelings …

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.