Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.