All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

It is proved that those who have plans but do not record them, lose to those who have written plans

Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.

It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.

All men are born free: just not for long.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.