Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt