We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.