Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

Obscurity is the kingdom of error.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.