Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

do not cry, you can focus the light spot with the eyes, the eyes of your heart . smile

If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.