“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.

One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.