the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I find it very annoying when people want to sit next to each other at a booth.

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

A little water clears us of this deed.