A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.
Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.
But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.
I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
Be the first to see what you see as you see it.
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.