Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

A good liar must have a good memory.

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.