Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

The less you know, the more you believe.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.