November25

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

November 26

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

November 27

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

November 28

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men's wisdom.

November29

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

November 30

It is a true great man whom no money and rank can confuse, no poverty and hardship can shake, and no power and force can suffocate.

December 1

Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself.

December 2

A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.

December 3

Mistakes are an essential part of education.

December 4

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

December 5

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

December 6

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

December 7

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

December 8

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

December 9

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

December 10

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

December 11

Heaven has made us talents, we're not made in vain. A thousand gold coins spent, more will turn up again.

December 12

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it. It's only good for wallowing in.

December 13

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of the incidents as disasters.

December 14

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

December 15

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

December 16

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

December 17

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth, because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

December 18

What is tragedy? Tragedy is the collision of goods.

December 19

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

December 20

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity without intruding upon the liberty of others.

December 21

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

December 22

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

December 23

A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind.

December 24

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.