Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Spring time is nature at its best.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.