“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

The world needs saints, and all of us, without exception, are called to holiness. We are not afraid!

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid you’d lost your way.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.

I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.

I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.