Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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