The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Have the courage of your desire.

Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

I have the happiness of the passing moment and what more can mortal ask?

I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.

I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

In training horses, one trains himself

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Everything that is contradictory creates life