Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.