Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.

To heed the discovery is the key

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.