I want to put a ding in the universe.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression