Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.
It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The disciplined are free.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
Nature hates calculators.
I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because its a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to.
Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
