If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

Life is a window of opportunity to love and enjoy.

It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.

Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.