It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

Don’t be afraid, be terrified

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

Don't make me angry-kiss you.