If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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

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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

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