There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

The essence is HIS presence.

God's great Law is spiritual.

Can you really talk to the dead?" She gave me the look that I was familiar with by now: equal parts derision, skepticism, and curiosity. “How much would it be? I mean, how much do you charge?

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

One hates an author that's all author.

It's not what you know anymore that counts, it's how fast you learn