Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

My death was written in that day when I was born, That is why I don’t fear about to die. I just fear that when I die who will cry?

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. Munindra Misra

God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.