Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

A person preaches well that lives well.

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.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

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

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Common sense is not so common.

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