There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

If you don't believe in yourself, How can you ever believe in another?

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

I'd like to levitate.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.