There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Nothing is black or white.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Genius is sorrow's child.