We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

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.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example.

Don’t wait for the last hour of life

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I feel good. I think everything went good.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Nothing outside of my child is important