I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.