A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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!
Our patience will achieve more than our force.