What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your eyes are yours alone. Show others what only you can see.

In love the ordinary is made sacred.

A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]