Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.