If you are good, life is good.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.
You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
