Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P. M. , and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.
I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.