Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Truly has it been said that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
I think we're here for each other.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Give help rather than advice.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.