When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Ill gotten power, money knowledge and qualifications will vanish faster than realized

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

all success cloaks a surrender

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.