Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it.

The doors to Wisdom & Glory are never closed, they just favor the undaunted

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

In every good man a God doth dwell.