The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.