A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

How are the mighty fallen!

Can they love without a word for it?

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .