He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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.

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

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

A lie never lives to be old.

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

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.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.