Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

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.

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

My mom died when I was 8.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.