The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.

It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow