It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

By Sharing you don't become Poor . . . you become Rich. For the more you Share, the more shall you Receive.

Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.

As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.