Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.