Courage is exhilarating.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
The soul’s emphasis is always right.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
This body of mine is my teacher. This heart of mine, my guide. My dear head struggles to make sense of it all whilst my hands gently remind me to trust and let go.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West
