You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.
How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
Judas needed the money for a sick friend.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
There's never an end for the sea.
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.