Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.