No one can be a better you than you. Therefore, striving continuously to become a better you is the only path to your greatness.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.