The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.