You can't predict the future, but you can follow your dreams.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A. D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.