Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Do not judge from mere appearances.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience andunderstanding. . . and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.