The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

The most unbearable moments, seeing your dear one crying and you cannot hold her because it is not allowed.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.

I love to play to win.