All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Just go to [Hillary Clinton] website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.
I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.