They build too low who build beneath the skies.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth

Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.