Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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.

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

We can't get kicked out of McDonald's! This is like the DMZ of drunk eating.