As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.