Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.

There's a difference between playing it cool and being a jerk.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.