In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand.

I shouldn't steal in this world.

Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.