The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

I know you’re afraid of getting hurt, again, ” Rick said as he gently took Angela’s hands in his. “I can’t predict your future. I’m just asking you if I can be a part of it.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.