We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

Only the Saviour saves souls.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.