There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Do what you choose to do with all your heart, head and hands! Your attitude determines how passionate you do what you chose to do.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

And makes me poor indeed.