Sometimes you just don’t like somebody.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

While there's life, there's hope.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.