It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

You would be highly surprise with how much you could achieve if you would let go of a lot of negative habits in your life and start attending to your dreams with more consistent actions.

LIFE never really ends... It just changes. You never lose your loved ones, you gain guardian angels.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

The real news is bad news.

Appearance is a type of power.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.