The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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.

Like capitalism, ” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.

The hypocrite is the great winner in this life which is the truth.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

The easiest way to make money is create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.