It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Freedom lies in being bold.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Nothing is black or white.