A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.

Absence of problems   does not lead to happiness.     Dealing with them does.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Everything always happens for a reason.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.