Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.