Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

It is in the recognition of our profound interconnection with one another that we can rise up to protect what we hold most sacred.