What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Never cut what you can untie.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.