If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.