My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

You cannot live with guilt.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.