He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.

Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.