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

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

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

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.

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.

When you start to promise yourself, that means you are living!

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

Democracy must be our answer to terrorism

A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!