No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

If a man does his best what else is there?

If you want to go somewhere it is best to find someone who has already been there.

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them and they cannot be silent if they would and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.