Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

True love stories never have endings.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.