Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Cats are angels with fur.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
The way to do is to be.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.