Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

Dance like nobody's looking.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.