If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.