...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear

Healthy self-esteem is a commanding and powerful influence, so isn’t it worth diving in deeper to ensure that you do everything possible to make your sense of self healthy, beneficial, and whole?

Unlike people, God will never turn His back on you. Trust in Him with all your heart, and you will never have to worry about being betrayed.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.