“Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The toughest decision I ever made was staying alive when life was unbearable.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.