There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
It’s a good thing to learn early that other people’s opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty.
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it – and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline – and above all his interest in others – these together make up the spirit of morale.
Human beings don’t show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked – past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing – into the want and emptiness within!
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one’s time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one’s time to cleaning up those of other people.
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife’s character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
Feelings change facts...
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient – never.