Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today’s the day to make those choices really count.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.