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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Memory feeds imagination.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.