The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Common sense is not so common.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.