Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

And the brave make their own fortune!

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

The inevitable slip of time weighted on a man's soul.

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

He's so big he makes a beeping noise when he walks backwords.