Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.