To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

Working hard doesn't necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.