The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

The human mind should be like a good hotel--open the year round.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.