Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

It takes a long time to grow young.

When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Religion is the opium of the masses.