“The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.”

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

A man lives by believing something.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

There are remedies for all things but death.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

I think when you have big dreams you attract other big dreamers.