We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I am not now That which I have been.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.