A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

love is like a rain bow can be seen in many different colors

UFO is a joke when there ain't mystery in the sky.

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

Does one really have to fretAbout enlightenment?No matter what road I travel, I’m going home.

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.