Happiness is meant to be shared.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason, "-Mark Twain

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

Grief is a circular staircase.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

The president has said Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.