There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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.

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

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.