We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Years teach us more than books.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

President Can't Swim.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.