The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Be that self which one truly is.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is goals that do not inspire them.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path give them then the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire and their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing I believe. I'm honest.

If any civilization is to survive it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Everybody soon or late sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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