In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place