Where there is a will, there is a way.
Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
Optimist (n) - A person who spends the last dollar to buy a new wallet.
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Life is lived in common, but not in community.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Diligence is the mother of success.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Money and Success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Cats are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
One foe is too many and a hundred friends are too few.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
The eyes of men speak words the tongue cannot pronounce.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Time keeps everything from happening all at once. Space keeps everything from happening all to you.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Don't count your chickens until they've hatched.
Patriotism ruins history.
The hottest hearts are obtained by cats of lonely women.
There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Money doesn't like fools but fools love money.
Men love women because women are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn.
