That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.

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.

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

Don't let him take you from me.