Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

With time, the hurt would begin to fade away, but not the memories.

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

I have one speed, I have one gear: Go!

I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.