We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.