“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

An honest man is always a child.

Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good.