Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Never hear anything bad about Canada, that's one thing - in fact, I guess it's the only thing.
Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.