my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.