One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
"You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath."
"Where your talents and the need of the world cross, there lies your vocation."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.