The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be, do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.