Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.

Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

My own thoughts Are my companions.

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.