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

Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

When you’re moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.

Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.