Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.

Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and make tough decisions, in order to achieve something extraordinary.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

When all else fails, use the pen.EMW

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.