A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Be that self which one truly is.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Boards don't hit back.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.