Quotes

Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.

While we wait for life, life passes.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.