The eye is easily frightened.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
The true poem is the poet’s mind.
That man is idle who can do something better.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.
Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
