The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. A very little key will open a very heavy door.Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.