The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

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.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.