A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

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.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.