The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

I am a limitless being of oneness. I am the physical embodiment of joy. Anything is possible in my life. My true source is joy.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.