Your Mercy is my social status.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

I don't think you ever replace David Ortiz with what he brings to an organization or to a community.

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.