Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
-Henry Ford
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is light by day and right mindfulness is protection by night.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin