Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.