A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

What if God’s 'NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.