Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.