Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.