It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.