Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Listen to your mind

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live.

And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

New York is all about people and the things people make.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.