When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

Years teach us more than books.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

However, if I ever were in a position to choose who would play me, I think I'd choose Johnny Depp.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.