Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!
I am for people. I can't help it.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.