The Truth

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Standby Him

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Live Life, Dream

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Age 50

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Not to Clever

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Invention

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -- to save oneself trouble.

Woman

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Miracles Happen

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Fascination

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Wisdom

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

One Must Dream

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Cleaning Oneself

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Motivation

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Someday

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Heart Dreams

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Share Courage

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Leave It

When in doubt, consult your inner child if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.

Find True Friends

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Realization

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Dreamed my Dream

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Courage is your Sword

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Failure with Courage

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Altering Oneself

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Love Mask

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The Observer

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Courage Is

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

No One Knows

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Possibilities and Probabilities

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Crazy for Love

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Happily Ever After a Day

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Live Life

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.