As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.