Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
They X-rayed my head and found nothing.
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
I don't know which was worse, the cost of the bridesmaid dress or having to wear it.
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.