To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.

If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!!

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.