We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

We are rough men and used to rough ways.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Do you guys have to sell everything? I'd like to buy the Earth's core.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.