“When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems.

If I go gambling the slots, some of my friends will come with me and play along with me.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.

The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.