Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you.

The purpose of life is to live for others. The moment you start living for yourself, you die before you time.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.