"You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once."

“I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.”

“Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.”

“God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.”

“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.”

“There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.”

Source : Quoted by Richard Foster in "Renovare perspective", Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1997.

“If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.”

“On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."”

Source : "CNN Lou Dobbs Moneyline", www.cnn.com. May 22, 2003.

“He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.”