After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people

It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

The energy of the universe is constant.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.