Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.