Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Love truth, and pardon error.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.