You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.