It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.