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

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.