An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Knowledge deepens with experience.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.