We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

In quietness the soul expands.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.