Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Let [Christ] transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step, and joy in your soul.

Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.