A life is black, whiten it as you will.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

The world’s most beautiful angel is love inside your soul.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Don't believe anyone who says, "I alone can fix it." Americans don't say, "I alone can fix it." We say, "We'll fix it together!"

We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.