When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread.

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.