The proof that the human being is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it’s a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

The excellent is new forever.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

The great object of life is sensation-to feel that we exist, even in pain.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do...

Only a life in the service of others is worth living.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

There’s always room for improvement, it’s the biggest room in the house.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.

Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world

The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

I want to know [God’s] thoughts, the rest are details.

The one who lives the longest and the one who lives the shortest, when it comes to dying lose one and the same thing.

Peace is found with honesty among wicked men.

No one knows what he is able to do until he tries.

I’d rather see folks doubt what’s true than accept what isn’t.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

A man’s real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

True love stories never have endings.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

I’d like to live like a poor man-only with lots of money.

To speak of “mere words” is much like speaking of “mere dynamite”