Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

The darkness you are in, is to make you feel the warmth of light that you aspire for.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.