In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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