We're not as different as we think we are.
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.