We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

You cannot successfully follow Jesus Christ unless you learn how to overcome fear through his name.John 14:1-4.

Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.