We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

I don’t talk much because talking without thought is not talking at all,

Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I’ll settle for giving you a flower.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.