People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The goal is not to pray and wait around for a miracle to happen, but to pray and then worker harder than ever with faith.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.