The demolition of a Temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

An angry person is always full of poison.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.