To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.