A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

The background of samsara is bliss

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile, ' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!