One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
