It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves.

Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.