A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.
When you feel like quitting think about why you started.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Health is the greatest possession.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.