“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”

“Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”