“The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.”

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it’s the only problem but there’s got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.