Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.