There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.