Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.