The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
If only God would give me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
The highest duty is to respect authority.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
Two wrongs can never make a right.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.