It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

The fear of God kills all other fears.

What we feel is as true a fact as what we think.

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Sisterhood is powerful.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.