"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink."

"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."

"General principles should not be based on exceptional cases."

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys."