People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.