There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Time is the best killer.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.