→ Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
→ Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
→ There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
→ A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Select the quotation attributed to William Faulkner.
→ Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
→ The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
→ Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
→ No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
One of these may be attributed to William Faulkner. Which one?
→ One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
→ Do not read as children do, to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do, to educate themselves. No, read to live.
→ I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
→ I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
→ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
→ It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
→ When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
→ Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.