We generally get the evil we expect.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art.

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.