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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Each soul is potentially divine.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

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

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.