Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Grain by grain, a loaf...stone by stone, a palace.

He knows nothing, he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

He's a gentleman: look at his boots.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles.... Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.