In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
