It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

War is the father of all things.