To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

You don’t need a long beard to be a sage

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

I listen to music constantly, and I'm always hearing things I love that I'm excited to use.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.