…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.