By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.