Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I'll always be poor in my mind.