Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

He that hunts others, must run himself.

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.

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.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.