While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness.

There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

The media is news gatherers. Why in the world are the media a factor?

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.