I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

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.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.