A wife’s loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.

In the moment we’re born, we’re drawn to form a union with others. An abiding drive to connect, to love, to belong. In a perfect union, we find the strength we cannot find in ourselves....

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

I don’t admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

You’ll be tested every single day.

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

Most of didn’t know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.