I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Beware of a man with manners.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.