There is no influence like the influence of habit.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.