What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Leaders do not chase comfort

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do