God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Innovation is the heart of humanity.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.