For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.