Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.