Genius is born--not paid.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons...

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."