“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Give the devil his due.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Let every man mind his own business.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

That which costs little is less valued.

Comparisons are odious.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

I do my best to love everybody.

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.