Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Time is money.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other choice but to fabricate gossip about a wise man saying nothing

Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.