Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.