You have to endure what you can't change.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

By men's words we know them.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.