I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
We only do well the things we like doing.
The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame.
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.