if you wanna make friends, you have to be hypocrite, but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.

We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

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My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.

When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.