It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

There is light in my soul.

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.