“Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.”

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

If you want to be happy, be.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Rest is a productive activity.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.