Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.