Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

The love for nature is the well-spring of life.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.