The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

History is the devil's scripture.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.