Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.