In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

Invincibility lies in the defence the possibility of victory in the attack.

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.

...smile first, then speak.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

What is more miserable than discontent?