What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

All great achievements require time.

Think globally, act locally.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

A precedent embalms a principle.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.