Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Boldness be my friend.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

I bear a charmed life.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.