Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.