Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

For makeup, a bit of blusher — what you call bronzer — a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.