The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

A friend is as it were a second self.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Work is love made visible.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.