Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.