If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.