What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

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.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Craft is part of the creative process.

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

If there's a best, I want to fight them.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are 'go-to' songwriters that people choose.