The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.