They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

Is this a kissing book?

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.