From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Continual prayer is a lifestyle."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.

She fixed me and broke me all at once.

He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.