The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Desire is the very essence of man.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.