There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

“The best prophet of the future is the past.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“Fear less. Do more. Get outside and get after it.”

“As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.”

“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”

“No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” 

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life

The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends

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

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity."

Circles, like the soul, are never-ending and turn round and round without a stop

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain.

“You and I will always be friends."

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” 

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.” 

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!” 

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.