But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

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