You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.