“There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.”

Books are a habit-forming drug.

If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

Are you afraid of their potential? or you just unaware of yours.

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

You, when I’m afraid, and you when I’m brave.

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.