If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation , then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Good clothes open all doors.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked his father, "Dad, how soon will I be old enough to do as I please?" The father answered immediately, "I don't know. Nobody has lived that long yet.".

The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs one step at a time.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.