if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Live for a reason. Live with passion.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Living without meaning is not Life, it is Death. It is like being in the graveyard except that you still have breath.-RVM

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.