Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

An idea is salvation by imagination

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.