Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on the same team, right?! Jellal!

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.