“I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

My every impulse bends to what is right.

Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.