To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
When I give, I give myself.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.