The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.