Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

Listen to the song of your heart, now follow the melody.

There’s no other way to look at you. You’re the definition of beauty.

People come in my house and say, “I like this.” I say, “Do you want it?” Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.