In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I like movies about failing.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.