There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.