To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.