Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.