As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.