Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.