Why is it that when we talk to God we're praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Even though the fact, the physicality, of death destroys us, the idea may save us

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.