When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
I used everything you gave me.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
A good life is a main argument.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
The more the merrier.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption.
If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Choose people who lift you up.
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.
