A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.