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.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Boards don't hit back.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Memory... is an internal rumour.