All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Human-nature will not change.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality