No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

I think the best and most we can do for ourselves is to find the thing we love to do, and then do it as if our very life depended upon doing it.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.