That which cost little is less valued.

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.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.