We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.