Sweet is pleasure after pain

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.