Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

A jug fills drop by drop.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.