Be confident, not certain
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
You are alive, so be fully alive.
Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
