For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

While there's life, there's hope.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.