To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
My Mum tries to be cool by saying that she likes all the same things that I do.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
She saw no irony asking me to change but wanting me to accept her for who she is.
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.