Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The mark of a great leader is not, only, one that found the courage to believe in themselves, but one, that was able to motivate others to take a look inward, and do the same.

If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.