A smiling face is half the meal.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.