O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Be a good witness by the way you live. The way we live is often more convincing than the words we say.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.