An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am not now That which I have been.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

The day of individual happiness has passed

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.