You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.