The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

I must have flowers, always and always.

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

You will never be pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, successful enough, or famous enough for the media

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too.

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.