You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.