“The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.”

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.”

“You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.”

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.”