“There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.”

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

The present is great with the future.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

I have lived a great life. I am very happy.

Great love isn’t two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.