To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.

For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4, 900 feet.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

I'm only in competition with my last level.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.