Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.