1. “The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.”
2. “It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.”
3. “The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.”
4. “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
5. “There is so much love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.”
6. “Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.”
7. “Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.”
8. “The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
9. “A tendency to fly straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.”
10. “When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
11. “The Chinese do not draw an distinction between food and medicine.”
12. “The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
13. “There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy wise old man.”
14. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests on his old, familiar pillow.”
15. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.”
16. “The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.”
17. “An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.”
18. “Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.”
19. “No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.”
20. “All human happiness is sensuous happiness.”
21. “Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.”
22. “Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”
23. “Even in despair, man must laugh.”
24. “The only test of a soul’s salvation is its inward happiness.”
25. “Such is human psychology that if we don’t express our joy, e soon cease to feel it.”
26. “Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.”
27. “Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.”
28. “Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.”
29. “Art is both creation and recreation.”
30. “We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.”
