William Penn

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

Children have helped me a lot.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.