Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

I wait for the morning of my tears

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

What we don't understand we don't possess.