The lie is elaborate and exact.
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
The rain begins with a single drop.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.