Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

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

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.