What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won't matter when others don't and if you know truly know God accepts you it won't matter when others won't

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better