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

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

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

That which costs little is less valued.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.