First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally to take a step without feet.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price peace-at-any-price safety-first instead of duty-first the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.