"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

"Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves."

"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune."

"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."

"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."

"Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."

"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

"It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do."

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."