The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.
To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.
The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
