Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.

He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.