Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The day of individual happiness has passed

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.