“Joy is not in things, it is in us.”

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

I’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.

I’ve just never cared what people think. It’s more if I’m happy and I’m confident and feeling good, that’s always been my thing.