It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.