Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.