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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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

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

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.