For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.