I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me r….

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, an….

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask o….

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death..

The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it i….

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before..

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. Yo….

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes..

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and….

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner inde….

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself las….

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do..

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, he….

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good..

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise..

It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a l….

No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divid….

My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of ….

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person do….

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yester….

There's little comfort in the wise.