To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.