I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
What is to give light must endure burning.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.