Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

A woman is a foreign land.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.