Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"

Your relationship with Allah, depends on the heart being clean.

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.