God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.

The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.