Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

You see, Firestar? I am even more powerful than Starclan, for I have changed the clans in the forest from four to two..."-The Darkest Hour, Page 227

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.