Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

Well begun is half done.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.