Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I like to surprise myself.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.