Compassion is the basis of morality.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
