-Dreams are the touchstones of our personality.
-The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
-I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Things do not change, we change.
-This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
-Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
-If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. -Live the life you have imagined.
-It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
-The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
-What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
-Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
-Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
-Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
-It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
-If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
-We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
-Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.