Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult, our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind...

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.