try to learn something about everything and everything about something

    What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the

breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow

which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

while bad people will find a way around the laws

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war

death after life does greatly please.

.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us.

So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us

with the radiation of their personalities

? Do you love me because I’m beautiful

or am I beautiful because you love me

o you love me because I’m beautiful,

or a

Perfect love is rare indeed—for to be a lover will require that you

continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility

of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding

of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance

.of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself

Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible  

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration

if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed