If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, " Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.