Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

We can only know others by ourselves.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The essence of love is kindness.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Everyone lives by selling something.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.