Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

listen to me, you’ve got this.seriously, you’ve got this.

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.