Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.