Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

You Stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I'll never be free of your force.

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?