Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
All problems are people problems. And most people problems are people refusing to act like people.
If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold; She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.