Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.