Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
There's none so blind as those who won't see.
The birds can fly, An' why can't I?
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
A day without prayer is a boast against God.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging.
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The game isn't over until it's over.
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.