If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Tension of opposites.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.