There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might. -Oromis

When God opens the windows of heaven for rain to flow, those who will enjoy are those who sow! Don't misuse the blessings of God... Get a seed today to grow!

I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.

I've never been to Ireland and I've always wanted to go.

A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.