As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Wrapped in a mother’s love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

Everything you want and you don't have, you get from other people.

Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?