“If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.”

When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?