You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.

What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.