The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars

Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I don’t know anyone who’s suffered lung cancer.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. “There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I don’t think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

The world will never realize how much it owes to neurotics and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.

I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most from it.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day,” she explained. “I just want these kids [her fans] to know that that depth that they feel as human beings is normal.