All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.