“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

You are your choices.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Don’t stumble over something behind you.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

After death there is nothing.

Find a path or make one.

A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.

People will try and confine you in adjectives, they will either declare you beautiful or call you ugly, either way it will box you, rise above their perception of you, free yourself and let your deeds define you.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.