"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

"The best answer to answer to anger is silence."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."

"'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path."