The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
it is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law
Life is too short to be small.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Justice is truth in action.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
What is a rebel ? A man who says no.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.