There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.