The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.