Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Some people are proud of their humility.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

True obedience is true freedom.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.