"Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself."

"Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future."

"That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind."

"She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."

"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch."

"If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!"

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

"If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes."

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."