I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Kind deed is a seed of love.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.