“O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.”

I ached for red silk romance, and carry me away passion, and I ached for it with nobody else but him. He was a breed of charming I couldn’t resist.

In the days that followed I couldn’t stop thinking about him. It made me believe maybe there was such thing as love at first sight, if not between a girl and a boy, then at least between a girl and a horse.

Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no grief.

According to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

An artist’s job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master – be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don’t learn that we don’t learn.

Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily. It is indeed the only thing we can call our own: other things may be taken from us by violence, but none can ravish our love.

Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.

I was stubborn and refused to chase, I threw my ego away and chased; it does not matter. Some people are just not meant to be.

If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.

The trouble is that we live far from ourselves and have but little wish to get any nearer to ourselves. Indeed we are running away all the time to avoid coming face to face with our real selves, and we barter the truth for trifles.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.

Act as though the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a universal law of nature.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

I know it won’t be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that’s your decision, not mine. I’m going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

I’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.