If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)

Never question the clouds, they're only bringing the life-giving rain.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.