“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, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.