There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet..
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before..
You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the s….
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty..
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig h….
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune..
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away..
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulne….
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom..
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world..
The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or some….
I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will ….
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals,….
Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incid….
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will al….
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life..
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping al….
I love to perform live..
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury..
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone a….