If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.