Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

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.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

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

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

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