Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Friendship is based on trust and treating others kindly.

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

I believe rules are meant to be broken.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.