“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?

That life you’re living – is it really yours?

She doesn’t need to be alone to be lonely. She doesn’t need to speak to be heard.