Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I am not now That which I have been.

Sunlight is painting.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

A person preaches well that lives well.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.