One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.