There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

Courage, ” he said, “is being absolutely terrified of something and doing it anyway.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

The ripest fruit first falls.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.