If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.