“Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.”

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Delay always breeds danger.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Come to me in pieces and exist inside me whole.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.