Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.