Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.

Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

I do tend to overdo everything.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?