The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Declan and

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

Everyone is part of you.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.

I'm not ugly, but I'm far from pretty.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?