Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.