When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

Strangers are contemporary posterity.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

"My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you." - Iphicrates,

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.