Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering. Buddhist prayer.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Even if I'm not asleep, that doesn't mean I'm awake.

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

The only religion is kindness.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. .