Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me right away, ” he said. “Just give me a chance.

To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.

Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!

Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.