Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

A person preaches well that lives well.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Give up trying to make me give up

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.