I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Music and Wine are one.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.