Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

If you wholeheartedly expect success, it will happen.

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

If something bad can happen, it will.