It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

Our mind is supposed to be a well-planned system.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

There’s a dignity in consequences.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.