In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Do what you can today. And keep working up until you can do everything you want to do in the day, every day.

We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night, ' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams