"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win."

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."

"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."

"Live simply that others might simply live."

"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly."

"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart."

"It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes."

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."