In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

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

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

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.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

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

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.

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.