Will Durant

This above all: to thine own self be true.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

The things you own end up owning you.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.