The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

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.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.