Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.