The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.