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

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

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.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Think you can live forever, act like today is your last day on earth.

Pride filled him. He'd put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease.

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.