The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Government exists only for the good of the governed.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.
The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow. . . service is gathering up the results.