I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.

Prayer is not only for answers but a spiritual act.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.

I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.

I keep myself amused and others confused

See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.