Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.