"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."

"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul."

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience."

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary."

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"I'm not going to be a hero. I'm going to be a writer."

"The radical invention of the mind is the only true thing."