Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Category: Inspirational
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage — it can be delightful.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
