People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.