Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.