Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.