Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Boredom is the Devil's delight.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Fear creates mountains

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.

If you #‎ love love, look for yourself.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.