The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

love yourself, be yourself.

When you find something you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don't feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.