I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.
Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
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.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.