Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Who needs sleep when you have a good book?

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I buy myself a gift every year, so this year I bought everything I wanted.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.