Quotes to inspire and reflect

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive.

There are never enough 'I love you'.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.