To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA.

The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.

The miracle is to walk on the earth.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.