Leo Tolstoy

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

I’m a product of pop culture.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.