One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Intelligence is a moral category.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.