Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open