I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I have.
Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
No rose is without thorns.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Transform regrets into realisations and therefore ensure that what could become waste is made into something worthwhile.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Everything depends on our thinking. If I think in the right way I will be light. If I think in a wasteful way I'll be heavy. Waste thoughts are dangerous. They waste my time. They allow the past to come alive, then I forget the present and question the future.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Between two evils, choose neither;
between two goods, choose both.
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Sweetness is the taste of all virtues. Patience is the fortress of all virtues. Cheerfulness is the evidence of all virtues.
