For rarely man escapes his destiny.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

We may run into many downfalls in life, but with a mighty God on our side those downfalls have already been defeated.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.