It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.