Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".

Natural elegance inspires the mind.

I am the donation to the foundation.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

Perfection seems sterile; It is final, no mystery in it; It's a product of an assembly line.

The government is worst which governs most.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.