I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Vintage kisses, " Finlay said. "If only they could be bottled, you would have an elixir beyond price.

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Love is the true condition of human life.