The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.