“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

I’ve wanted one thing for me whole life and I’m not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don’t, no one else will.

Life is not the time for possessing but for loving.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.